Definition for Brief:

• ( Law) reduce( facts &c.) to a b.; instruct( barrister) by b., employ.

Synonyms for Brief:

• adj.

  •compendious (adjective)
  • synoptic,
  • compendiary.
  •concise (adjective)
  • terse,
  • sententious,
  • epigrammatic,
  • incisive,
  • succinct,
  • compact,
  • abrupt.
  •fugacious (adjective)
  • fugacious.
  •little (adjective)
  • puny,
  • low,
  • few,
  • minute,
  • meager,
  • tiny,
  • scanty,
  • smallish,
  • narrow,
  • paltry,
  • diminutive,
  • delicate,
  • small.
  •short (adjective)
  • condensed,
  • abridged,
  • runty,
  • picayune,
  • stumpy,
  • petite,
  • clipped,
  • squat.
  •short in time (adjective)
  • fleeting,
  • instantaneous,
  • momentary,
  • passing.
  •transient (adjective)
  • changeable,
  • shifting,
  • impermanent,
  • fickle,
  • mortal,
  • flickering,
  • fading,
  • temporal,
  • Flitting,
  • evanescent,
  • volatile,
  • rootless,
  • restless,
  • mutable.

• n.

  •
  • slight,
  • account,
  • overview.
  •
  • abridge,
  • summarize,
  • deliver,
  • epitomize,
  • tell,
  • recapitulate.
  •
  • prepare.
  •
  • flying,
  • swift.
  •
  • briefing,
  • words,
  • instructions,
  • lean,
  • directions,
  • style.
  •
  • attitude.
  •brief (noun)
  • short,
  • abbreviated,
  • legal brief.
  •list (noun)
  • memorandum.
  •publication (noun)
  • periodical,
  • journalism,
  • herald,
  • announcement,
  • organ,
  • newsletter,
  • journal,
  • bulletin,
  • advertisement,
  • propaganda,
  • newspaper,
  • newsmagazine,
  • promotion,
  • review,
  • gazette,
  • dissemination,
  • commercial,
  • promulgation,
  • notice,
  • publication,
  • handbill,
  • circular.

• v.

  •advise (verb)
  • confer,
  • caution,
  • warn,
  • advocate,
  • suggest,
  • recommend,
  • prompt,
  • counsel,
  • cue,
  • direct,
  • admonish,
  • guide,
  • encourage,
  • consult,
  • advise.
  •disclose (verb)
  • express,
  • communicate,
  • broadcast,
  • testify,
  • disclose,
  • advertise,
  • proclaim,
  • disseminate,
  • unmask,
  • uncloak,
  • reveal,
  • announce,
  • declare,
  • confess,
  • divulge,
  • exhibit,
  • assert.
  •inform of facts (verb)
  • show the lay of the land,
  • orient,
  • give rundown,
  • edify,
  • explain.
  •publish (verb)
  • publish,
  • promulgate,
  • propagandize,
  • circulate,
  • promote.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • floating,
  • prim,
  • brevity,
  • tailor-made,
  • affidavit,
  • off-the-rack,
  • peaked,
  • backless,
  • subpoena,
  • provisional,
  • snug,
  • ready-to-wear,
  • relay,
  • raglan,
  • inconstant,
  • convertible,
  • signify,
  • tailored,
  • summons,
  • revealing,
  • skimpy,
  • button-down,
  • sensible,
  • quickly,
  • waiver,
  • best,
  • sloppy,
  • sporty,
  • rolled-up,
  • Starched,
  • ephemera,
  • dressy,
  • informal,
  • testament,
  • loose,
  • modest,
  • transitional,
  • interim,
  • homespun,
  • strappy,
  • transmit,
  • propagate,
  • erratic,
  • made-to-measure,
  • abbreviation,
  • Guidelines,
  • tight,
  • baggy,
  • casual,
  • button-through,
  • one-piece,
  • oversized,
  • formal,
  • seamed,
  • designer,
  • itchy,
  • boot-cut,
  • Hooded,
  • awhile,
  • impart,
  • roomy,
  • codicil,
  • kaleidoscopic,
  • weatherproof,
  • petition,
  • briefly,
  • throwaway,
  • A-LINE,
  • Clingy,
  • low-cut,
  • taciturn,
  • prissy.
  •
  • instruction,
  • abridgment,
  • variable,
  • share,
  • wraparound,
  • section,
  • elastic,
  • will.
  •
  • give,
  • expeditious,
  • process,
  • covenant,
  • speedy,
  • silent,
  • rapid,
  • gruff,
  • say.
  •
  • economical,
  • article,
  • demonstration.
  •
  • quiet,
  • bond,
  • pass.
  •
  • quick.
  •
  • direction,
  • fast.
  •
  • order.
  •Other relevant words:
  • returns,
  • debrief,
  • fine,
  • in short,
  • smooth,
  • conspectus,
  • chalk out,
  • recruit,
  • abruptly,
  • plan,
  • accounting,
  • haste,
  • cut,
  • compressed,
  • dumpy,
  • give notice,
  • particulars,
  • meddle,
  • adapt,
  • briskly,
  • excerpt,
  • harsh,
  • brusquely,
  • trenchant,
  • flashing,
  • brisk,
  • acquaint,
  • directive,
  • impetuous,
  • succinctly,
  • wakeful,
  • record,
  • contents,
  • gone tomorrow,
  • sketch,
  • statement,
  • drawer,
  • weensy,
  • hit the high spots,
  • dismissive,
  • close,
  • humble,
  • in brief,
  • precipitate,
  • meteoric,
  • line,
  • monosyllabic,
  • flight plan,
  • Stubbed,
  • ready,
  • Glancing,
  • sketchy,
  • SUMMA,
  • block out,
  • bring word,
  • retrousse,
  • capsule,
  • delineate,
  • peremptory,
  • Leagued,
  • pocket,
  • dossier,
  • insufficient,
  • abridgement,
  • snappish,
  • serve notice,
  • docked,
  • in case,
  • speak,
  • ought to,
  • violently,
  • shortened,
  • concentrated,
  • cogent,
  • mute,
  • assignment,
  • surly,
  • guidebook,
  • Distilled,
  • answer for,
  • slenderly,
  • pointed,
  • qualified,
  • contract,
  • cometary,
  • recapitulation,
  • mission,
  • around,
  • consolidation,
  • minuscule,
  • proceedings,
  • book,
  • Confederated,
  • approximately,
  • shortening,
  • Curtate,
  • incomplete,
  • going,
  • rapidly,
  • coarsely,
  • shortly,
  • operation,
  • propose,
  • summing up,
  • tally,
  • sharp,
  • gnomic,
  • high-speed,
  • trivial,
  • round-up,
  • midget,
  • elfin,
  • define,
  • elliptic,
  • mediocre,
  • survey,
  • expiring,
  • oblate,
  • present,
  • in a word,
  • outlines,
  • engage,
  • sum,
  • flash,
  • tongue-tied,
  • reserve,
  • truncate,
  • drawing,
  • skeleton,
  • snappily,
  • roughly,
  • slightly,
  • extemporaneous,
  • expeditiously,
  • guideline,
  • perfunctory,
  • trace,
  • tip,
  • readily,
  • retain,
  • soon,
  • swiftly,
  • superficial,
  • thickset,
  • unclouded,
  • tersely,
  • tutor,
  • Close-tongued,
  • groom,
  • advice,
  • run through,
  • expose,
  • rude,
  • squab,
  • submit,
  • mention,
  • rudely,
  • reserved,
  • slipping away,
  • give the facts,
  • neat,
  • sudden,
  • lowercase,
  • note,
  • harshly,
  • airmanship,
  • spartan,
  • be deficient,
  • pruned,
  • verse,
  • data,
  • picture,
  • contention,
  • heads,
  • return,
  • take on,
  • Curtailed,
  • develop,
  • coach,
  • teach,
  • lacking,
  • closemouthed,
  • scrimp,
  • clause,
  • pithy,
  • stand for,
  • piffling,
  • information,
  • rushed,
  • in summary,
  • rough in,
  • give directions,
  • extract,
  • wordless,
  • sign on,
  • appear for,
  • synopsized,
  • exact,
  • summarily,
  • promptly,
  • miniscule,
  • bespeak,
  • kibitz,
  • rather,
  • shape,
  • firm,
  • panty,
  • leave word,
  • ACTA,
  • squabby,
  • frantic,
  • mum,
  • stocky,
  • offhandedly,
  • draughtsman,
  • minimal,
  • dumb,
  • speedily,
  • elliptical,
  • head,
  • describe,
  • breakneck,
  • sign up for,
  • younger,
  • shorn,
  • telescoped,
  • telegraphic,
  • prescribe,
  • distillate,
  • here today,
  • textbook,
  • Preengage,
  • abbreviate,
  • argument,
  • frenetic,
  • truncated,
  • thumbnail sketch,
  • consult with,
  • fleet,
  • dwarf,
  • untalkative,
  • rubric,
  • speechless,
  • conveyance,
  • transactions,
  • epitomise,
  • concisely,
  • Compend,
  • train,
  • discourteously,
  • sketch out,
  • hardscrabble,
  • recommendation,
  • decurtate,
  • annual,
  • summarise,
  • block in,
  • quaint,
  • employ,
  • defense,
  • design,
  • apothegmatic,
  • Knicker,
  • hire,
  • drill,
  • ACCOUNT RENDERED,
  • accelerated,
  • aphoristic,
  • Familiarize,
  • crudely,
  • niggling,
  • Abbreviatory,
  • to sum up,
  • tight-lipped,
  • rundown,
  • analysis,
  • Abbreviature,
  • contracted,
  • footling,
  • run-down,
  • moderate,
  • attorney,
  • imperceptible,
  • in sum,
  • case,
  • rough out,
  • suddenly,
  • pug,
  • encapsulation,
  • minutes,
  • abrege,
  • draught,
  • feverish,
  • charge,
  • fit,
  • precipitously,
  • job,
  • commission,
  • statement of case,
  • condense,
  • resume,
  • remote,
  • syllabus,
  • draft,
  • fill-in,
  • shorten,
  • represent,
  • yearbook,
  • vanishing,
  • piddling,
  • chunky,
  • opinion,
  • pregnant,
  • petty,
  • sign up,
  • synopsize,
  • limited,
  • undetailed,
  • washout,
  • stubby,
  • disappearing,
  • aposiopestic,
  • draughty,
  • capsulize,
  • rule,
  • slapdash,
  • hectic,
  • curtal.

Paraphrases for Brief:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    briefing, terse.
  • Proper noun, singular
    briefing, briefings.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    briefing.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    little, tight, slight, limited, short-duration, short-form, forthcoming, dossier, minor, summary, near, immediate, condensed, early, tiny, sketchy.
  • Proper noun, singular
    remarks, annotations, highlights, merits, facts, grades, SDS, BREF, summary, Summaries.
  • Noun, plural
    disclosures, banknotes, annotations, grades.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    coordinates, highlights, dossier, summary.
  • Verb, past tense
    Wrote, Told, Notified.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    updating, communicating, telling, Notifying, alerting.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    follows, provides.
  • Verb, base form
    requested, apprise, tell.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    short-lived, Simpler, abbreviated, cursory, fleeting, few, abridged, small, ephemeral, transient, straightforward, simple, temporary, concise.
  • Proper noun, singular
    briefs, concise.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    nutshell, brevity, memoir, simple, concise.
  • Verb, past tense
    debriefed.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    debriefing.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    submissions.
  • Verb, base form
    summary, acquaint.

Antonyms for Brief:

• adj.

  • short, compressed
    huge, expansive, wordy, enormous, long-winded, long-lived, long, important, indefinite, kind, benevolent, lengthy, large, immense, big.
  • short in time
    sluggish, permanent, slow.
  • Other antonyms:
    eternal, enlarged, lifelong, immortal, windy, Indefectible, perpetual, imperishable, repetitious, prolonged, lasting, embellished, indestructible, verbose, endless, deathless, redundant, longish, persistent, enduring, inflated, interminable, ceaseless, everlasting, protracted, Tautologous, dateless, timeless, tautological, embroidered, durable, Overlong, expanded, undying, unending, long-range, continuing, great, exaggerated.

• v.

  • inform of facts
    secret, hide, neglect.

Hypernym for Brief:

• n.

  • communication
    amicus curiae brief.

Hyponym for Brief:

• n.

  • communication
    legal document, abstract, outline, official document, synopsis, legal instrument, instrument, precis.

• v.

  • communication
    instruct, apprise, apprize.